FineLinen said:
alternate plan b=
God would like to be your Saviour, however, your little will overshadows the Will of all wills. Command and teach this.
Superior Plan A =
"To this end we labor and strive, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those who believe, and here is the motive of our toiling and wrestling, because we have our hopes fixed on the ever-living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, and especially of believers. Command and teach this."
Let us read this in context, which has been deliberately omitted.
"To this end we [believers] labor and strive, because we [believers] have set our [believers] hope on the living God."
Here is another verse from the same chapter.
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Why didn't Paul say "continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and all mankind?" Paul did not say that, he mentioned only those that would hear Timothy.
Here are more verses written by Paul
1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall ]not inherit the kingdom of God.
Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Do you suppose that when Paul wrote to Timothy he forgot what he wrote to Corinth, Ephesus and Galatia? Or vice versa when he wrote to Corinth, Ephesus and Galatia he forgot what he wrote to Timothy?